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To: denizen48 who wrote (77512)	5/5/2008 1:34:01 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

the origin of "weatherman." I believe the term actually came from a Bob Dylan song Subterranean Homesick Blues. The line from the song was quoted in the original position paper of one of the splinter groups of the SDS. There were several splinter groups and nobody could remember what they called each other (much like the scene where Brian first joins the People's Font of Judea in Life of Brian). This paper, which advocated active resistance to the government, became known as the one by the weathermen, and soon that branch became known as the weathermen. These events occurred when I first started college at University of Texas. In my first year I checked out all the major student organizations including SDS which was a large and active student group. The SDS self destructed in the first couple of times I saw it. The weatherman position in Austin was advocated by Marilyn Buck, who played a major role in the Brinks robbery. She was on the run for another ten years or so, but every so often little cryptic flyers would be posted at various hippy hangouts in Austin which were supposedly coded letters home. TP